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Mar 21 • 📢 Listen up

‼️TikTok alert

I had problems with my TikTok account the last few days and also had to verify my account.

This morning I read a post of

@Danele Louw

which she shared in her community and she ended with safety recommendations I just have to share.

𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

𝑇𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔:

1. 𝐷𝑜 𝑁𝑂𝑇 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠𝐴𝑝𝑝 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒: 𝐷𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚.

2. 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟: 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝑐𝑙𝑡𝑑” 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠𝐴𝑝𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

3. 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑠: 𝐼𝑓 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑝𝑝. 𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑆𝑀𝑆 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛-𝑎𝑝𝑝 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.

4. 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑: 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑤𝑜-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (2𝐹𝐴) 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑝𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑀𝑆 𝑜𝑟 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠𝐴𝑝𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑠.

5. 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑚: 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠𝐴𝑝𝑝 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠𝐴𝑝𝑝 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

TikTok is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming.

As of early 2026, ByteDance remains the parent company, though it has agreed to sell a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business to a group of American investors.

My input is that due to the new investors it might be the reason that we have to verify our accounts.

Strongs

@Danele Louw

I hope you get this sorted and big thank you for the warning.

From my side, my TikTok is working again.

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